﻿THE 
  ANNALS 
  

  

  AND 
  

  

  MAGAZINE 
  OF 
  NATURAL 
  HISTORY. 
  

  

  [SIXTH 
  SERIES.] 
  

   No. 
  14. 
  FEBRUARY 
  1889. 
  

  

  IX. 
  — 
  Report 
  on 
  a 
  Second 
  Collection 
  of 
  Sponges 
  from 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  

   Manaar. 
  By 
  Arthur 
  Dendy, 
  M.Sc, 
  F.L.S., 
  Demonstrator 
  

   and 
  Assistant 
  Lecturer 
  in 
  Biology 
  in 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  

   Melbourne. 
  

  

  [Plates 
  III.-V.] 
  

  

  A 
  LITTLE 
  more 
  than 
  a 
  year 
  ago 
  I 
  published 
  in 
  this 
  Journal 
  

   an 
  account* 
  of 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  sponges 
  made 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Edgar 
  

   Thurston, 
  Superintendent 
  of 
  the 
  Government 
  Central 
  Mu- 
  

   seum 
  at 
  Madras, 
  off 
  the 
  shores 
  of 
  the 
  Island 
  of 
  Rameswaram 
  

   in 
  the 
  Gulf 
  of 
  Manaar. 
  Shortly 
  before 
  leaving 
  England 
  I 
  

   received 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Thurston 
  a 
  second 
  collection, 
  obtained 
  in 
  

   the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  the 
  Tuticorin 
  Pearl 
  Banks. 
  This 
  

   collection 
  was 
  of 
  even 
  greater 
  interest 
  than 
  the 
  first, 
  and 
  its 
  

   value 
  was 
  greatly 
  enhanced 
  by 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Thurston 
  

   had 
  carefully 
  preserved 
  portions 
  of 
  nearly 
  all 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  

   spirit, 
  and 
  had 
  also 
  kept 
  a 
  record 
  of 
  the 
  colours 
  of 
  the 
  sponges 
  

   in 
  the 
  living 
  state. 
  Unfortunately 
  my 
  report 
  on 
  this 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  has 
  been 
  greatly 
  delayed 
  by 
  pressure 
  of 
  other 
  work, 
  

   and 
  even 
  now 
  I 
  feel 
  that 
  I 
  have 
  been 
  unable 
  to 
  do 
  full 
  justice 
  

  

  * 
  "The 
  Sponge-fauna 
  of 
  Madras," 
  Ann. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  Xat. 
  Hist. 
  ser. 
  5, 
  

   vol. 
  xx. 
  p. 
  153. 
  

  

  Ann. 
  <jD 
  Mag. 
  N. 
  Hist. 
  Ser. 
  G. 
  Vol. 
  iii. 
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